Neurodivergence
Cooking with Squirrels
You can get anything done with ADHD's superpower...but you have to be into it, first.
Neurodivergence
Neurodivergence
Burned by the ADHD Back Burner
ADHDers like me live in the now. It's not that we don't like to plan ahead. It's just that when we put things on the back burner, we tend to forget about them until they boil over. And then it's time to reach for the kitchen wipes...
Neurodivergence
ADHD and the Art of Being Dumped
Breaking up is usually hard to do. But for Adult ADHDers, the curtain comes down on love so frequently that we often spend an entire relationship just wondering when it will end. Sometimes we ADHDers need to offer ourselves the same understanding we ask of others.
Neurodivergence
The ADHDeer-in-Headlights Syndrome
Sometimes an ADHDer takes a look at the responsibilities, tasks, and to-do items on their plate and freezes like a deer in oncoming headlights. When you have a brain that's hard-wired to help you remember past failure, the hardest thing in the world can be taking a single step forward.
Neurodivergence
My Communicamp Experience: Why Open Conferences Are Danger Zones for ADHDers
Today, I walked out of Community Media Workshop's Communicamp open conference. It wasn't for lack of wanting to stay in my seat and spend the day with the cognescenti of the Windy City's media and blogging worlds. But how do you remain at an event where the rules of the road seem almost aimed at mak
Neurodivergence
Handyman
'Don't worry, I've done this before and they almost always call,' said Nick, announcing his decision to leave his number for our waitress. Overly Frank and I were less than eager to witness the passive-aggressive, likely-to-go-down-in-flames example of heterosexual courtship.
Neurodivergence
Attention Deficit Déjà Vu
It's not so much paying attention that's the problem for us ADDers. The real impossible dream tends to be stopping ourselves form paying attention to less important tasks so we can focus on issues that really count.
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Cat and a Drop Dead Proof
When Overly Frank adopted olderly Ryza from PAWS Chicago earlier this month, the cuddly interaction between Oklahoma expat and 11-year-old feline made me realize how much I'd been taking my own lifelong companion for granted. His life, that is.
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Eraserhead and the Vulcan of Loneliness
I sat there and felt like I was a cartoon character and he was an unhappy artist with a big, fat eraser, just rubbing me out, swipe by swipe. It's one thing to think you're only up against up against your own demons. It's something else entirely to be told by the guy you loved that he's made a decis
Neurodivergence
Tasmanian Michael Goes to Bermuda
An old 12-step adage says no matter how willingly you’re off the wagon, sometimes recovery comes and finds you. One day you’re sitting there in your living room wrapped around your addiction of choice when you hear a knock at the door. You peer through the peephole and there’s no one there. But you
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One Foot in Front of the Other
One step, two step, 12-step. I can grouse and complain, but denial will get me nowhere, especially when the river I'm walking across is in Chicago. Over the Wabash Bridge I go to my coffee-office this morning, mulling what room I'll be sitting in later this afternoon, and why.
Neurodivergence
The Circle of Life
Ever feel like life is walking you around in circles? Yeah, me too, especially lately. Then again, maybe it's just me who keeps walking around in circles. Here's a video demonstration of exactly what I mean...